On Sunday, the Baltimore Sun wrote what they called “an apology,” but which is better described as what my field of rhetoric calls an “apologia.” Rhetorical scholars B. L. Ware and Wil A. Linkugel wrote the article of record on apologetic discourse about 50 years ago...
“Competency to stand trial,” hundreds of years old in Anglo-Saxon criminal justice, is considered fundamental as a concept, but is unwieldy in practice. Everyone agrees that if a person truly does not understand the charges faced and literally cannot help his counsel in defense, there is a basic unfairness inherent in the process.
Jarrod Ramos is on trial to determine if his killing of five innocent journalists at The Capital Gazette was due to his being “not criminally responsible” in the terms of Maryland’s insanity statute. To reasonable sentient people, the slayinga and the non-fatal attacks on others present were a wholly premeditated act.
By Richard E. Vatz There are a few characteristics necessary to doing any job well, but one might say in particular, for politically administering a city, intelligence, judgment and intellectual honesty are critical. The city of Baltimore has been bereft in its...
I was reminded some days ago by the inestimable June Smith that on December 19 it will have been 9 years since her Ron left us, and to put it simply: he was the best radio talk show host ever — anywhere. To be a great talk show host, one must be knowledgeable,...
Supreme Court Justice Alito in his warning that in academia there is a level of intolerance that leads to “harassment and intolerance [of law school students] if they say anything that departs from the law school orthodoxy” is equally true of conservative faculty and students at public colleges and universities throughout the United States, as well as my own Towson University.
“Fatherlessness as a major contributing factor to poverty, crime and education underachievement has long been recognized by researchers but it has been almost totally ignored by policy makers. The time has come to make this a priority issue for discussion in the...
The presidential debate schedule has been set, and as always, since 1960, save 1964 and 1968, and 1972, such debate participation has been the de facto law of the land. Implications by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Vice President Joe Biden should not and might not...
Criminal leaders forced to leave office cannot be cleansed for public office by citing minor reductions in crime during their tenure and gaining endorsements from amoral sources.
The Sun comprises not a single reporter or media or political writer on its staff whose likely political slant is to the right of progressive, which is left of liberal.
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